Frank Porter GRAHAM

(1886-1972)

Senate Years of Service:

1949-1950

Party:

Democrat

GRAHAM, Frank Porter, a
Senator from North Carolina; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., October 14, 1886; attended the public schools of
Charlotte and the preparatory academy at Warrenton, N.C.;
graduated, University of North Carolina 1909; studied law at the
University of North Carolina and received license to practice in
1913; received a graduate degree at Columbia University, New York
City in 1916; high school English instructor in Raleigh, N.C.,
1910-1912; instructor, assistant professor, and professor of
history, University of North Carolina 1915-1930; during the First
World War enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps
in June 1917 and was discharged in July 1919 as a first lieutenant;
returned to the University of North Carolina and became president
1930-1949; served on the Consumers Board of National Recovery
Administration, the National Advisory Council to the Cabinet
Committee on Economic Security, the President’s Committee on
Education, the Industries Committee of American Railroads, the
National Defense Mediation Board, the National War Labor Board, the
Maritime War Emergency Board, and the Good Offices Committee of the
Security Council of the United Nations on Indonesia; adviser to the
Secretary of State on Indonesian Affairs in 1948; appointed on
March 29, 1949, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of J. Melville Broughton and served
from March 29, 1949, to November 26, 1950; unsuccessful candidate
for the nomination in 1950 to fill the vacancy; United Nations
mediator and United Nations representative to India and Pakistan in
the Kashmir dispute; chairman, North Carolina Tercentenary
Celebration Commission 1963; retired from the United Nations in
1967 because of ill health and returned to Chapel Hill, N.C., where
he died February 16, 1972; interment in Old Chapel Hill
Cemetery.